This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of December, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [764], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [489].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born April 9, 1896, 5 min. past 5:00 A. M., in New Orleans, La. Time of Reading 12:00 to 1:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the entity now known as [764].
2. In entering the present experience we find many are the influences that the entity has upon those whom the entity contacts, not only from that builded in the present but from those records that we find as experiences in the entity's evolution or development that have brought and will bring influences to be wielded upon those whom the entity contacts.
3. And as to the impelling influence wielded through the relative positions of such sojourns upon the earth experience in the present (This is irrespective of the will), we find:
4. Mercury makes for a high mental efficiency; and with the influence combined with same from the entity's sojourn in Venus and Jupiter makes or brings oft the impelling mental experience in the earth wherein the entity finds itself at times living, experiencing (as in relation to the earth's environs), in its imaginations, in its outer self, as if it were floating away upon the clouds of dreams, upon the barques of the sea of experience in its own visioning. And, tempered through its experience upon these two influences by Jupiter, finds itself in such visions, dreams, imaginations, as may be termed from a purely material standpoint, dealing with the activities not only in the imaginative world but the material activity of individuals and those things that in such individuals' and groups' experience have brought about their own activity - or that have prompted them for their own activity. Then, innately, in the present experience these make for the ability of the entity from the
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material standpoint to become, as it were, a recorder of events, of happenings; a natural historian, natural in the adapting of self for keeping the records of events, of meets, of meetings, of the various characters of things that pertain to the social activities, as to the political influences, as to those things that are BEHIND the scenes, as it were, that rule the State, that rule those emotions in the lives of individuals that prompt them in making their decisions in this or that activity in their experience and in their relationships with individuals. Many are those things and experiences of the entity that have made for the developments that crowd in for their expression.
5. Through these sojourns in the astrological environments about the earth there has been the tendency for the ego or self to become not wholly as the one in the van in the expressions of same, but rather has that ego PROMPTED through the experiences in Mercury tempered same with judgement, and tempered same with that true experience in Venus where love in its essence and in its finer self vaunts not itself, does not become puffed up, behaveth itself seemly, is bearing all things, is enduring in all things - and yet without the hope of self-expression in some manner through such expressions of associations become easily discouraged and cast down. For though there be those influences that give the power in expression and in manifestations, unless these be tempered with not only mercy WITH judgement but with that which is of spiritual IMPORT in bringing justice for and to others, as well as for the glorifying of that power that IS impelling without the thought of self, it becomes as sounding brass, as the bell that has been broken, as the lute whose note has been twisted, as the wind that has lost its vestige of odor that bore its force or import to those to whom it would bring relief in any clime.
6. Hence, in those influences through Neptune with Arcturus, the entity has swung far from the earth's influence and at times - with these visions of the inner self, or the dreams - as they may be termed - lost, as it were, the import of the material activity or the material upon the activities of a soul; yea, of a body, in its expressions in materiality. Hence at times do those about the entity call the entity the dreamer, the visioner of dreams, the one lost to those things save of the superlative degree in their expressions; and as to the manners or means of showing the beauties that are found in self becomes questioned by others as to its choice. Yet in itself, as from the Mercurian influence, the entity oft finds judgements in the material bringing for
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self TEMPERAMENTAL associations in the material plane. Hence there may be numbered among the entity's associates, yea even the entity's friends, those that are wholly spiritual-minded; those that are turned to the cause and effect in the material things, those of the scientific turn of mind, and yet those that are worldly for worldly sake that there may be the satisfying of the longings of the flesh for the fleshpots of the gratifyings of material desires. Yet all gain, as does the entity from such associations oft, that which makes for the turning in their own selves for the looking-glass of self-expression. For as the entity oft in its visions passes from realm to realm of its visioning, so do those that contact the entity find in the expressions or the moods of the entity that which enables them - in meeting their own problems, in seeking in their inner quests for those fields of expression, of activity - to bring to life that which to them becomes as the next stepping-stone in their experience.
7. So may we find from these experiences and from these sojourns the entity using the earthly words, endowed with that which may break men's bodies, which may aid men to mount to their higher selves, which may make for the arousing in the individual and in the group the seeking to use self in service; yea for those that find in those very expressions that which may take away from them that little footing that had been as their hope among men.
8. As to the manifestations that have been the mental or the inner experiences of the entity or soul, there has been brought into the material experiences those things that deal with the changes - and during those periods of changes, as in the present - in the affairs of men of high degree, of peoples in a wandering state, as to nations in turmoil, seeking - seeking - ever for that light that may shine into the darkness of their despairs and bring to them that wonder of the hope of a light upon the hills that may guide them through the slough of despair, that may bring them again to the mount of hope, into those fields of light that may bring the renewal of hope, of faith, in their experience.
9. Then, as to the former appearances in the earth, we find:
10. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods when there were the gatherings of peoples from many lands by the changes wrought in the different languages of that land known as the New Amsterdam, or New York; or the changes that came.
11. Then the entity was in the variation of sex, in that of Jean Du Maurierten - that made the expeditions into that new land as one upon the point, as it may be termed from the
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material things, of becoming the mutineer, or the seeker for the destroying of those things that brought the burdens upon others. And yet when coming in contact with those that were in the faith of a new land, a new purpose, a new ideal, the entity - through the material love for that one who altered much of the experience - joined with those that brought harmony and peace and joy not only for those people in the new land but combined the efforts of the various groups to join hands as a unit in their own defense, and for the persecuting of those things that brought not only the material gains but the sureness in their purposes and the activities in that sojourn.
12. Later the entity's name was changed to George Maurier, and there may be found among the old records of that New Amsterdam or the Philadelphia land the older records of how the joinings of those people of the simple faith, of the simpler things in the material, influenced the greater numbers during that sojourn.
13. In the present from that sojourn there is the love of the eastern land; and the ways that pertain to mystery stories, to the activities of individuals, become as a portion of the entity's activity in the present.
14. From those influences also we find the love of companionships, for that which will make a background or a basis for the activities of those whom the entity may cause to speak in their own individual sphere of activity.
15. Before that (among those that influence the entity the greater in the present) we find the entity was in the earth during that sojourn when the Master walked in the land, in the periods when there were the persecutions of those that were the followers of Him who walked in Galilee.
16. The entity then was in the associations with those of Herod's household, that one who questioned so oft as to the one who made the persecutions of the forerunner of that Teacher.
17. Through those experiences the entity suffered in the mental associations. For had not there been in the experience of the entity, in the formative years, the message of the Wise Men that had come seeking? And they came to that very court in which the entity then heard those things that aroused within self that longing to know more of the mysteries, that made for the arousing and the awakening in the hearts and minds of men and women everywhere that longing for the raising of those forces or powers that would loose them from the bondage - not only of material things but of that wonderment, of doubt, that so oft beset the minds of those who have been called for a purpose, for an
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ideal. Though the surroundings of the body were such that its position did not allow the defying of custom, nor yet the judgements of people, the entity wondered and wondered - seeking with those ever that might gather together those things that passed from the lips of those that had been close with that man that preached first, "Seek the Lord while He may be found! Make thy paths straight! Turn ye while ye may, for the acceptable year of the Lord is at hand!" And to the entity these words RING as something that takes hold upon the inner self. Yea, with those periods of persecution of those that had become the teachers and the ministers to those that were in material bondage - and were still in doubt as to those teachings of that Man, the entity then - in the name Dumuru - was among those people that listened and harkened; and, being rather in a position of power, became the friend of her that suffered as the wife of Pilate - and of those that suffered in the household of Herodias, also those that were enjoined with Magdalene in the periods beyond Berea and among those that aided when Lazarus spoke as from the dead.
18. THESE things bear upon the entity in its present experience, rather as the harp strings that may be played to record those memories upon those hills and in those cities of that land. If the entity will turn the more often to these, there may come in all of its activities - as a writer, as an edifier of those that are in doubt and in fear - the ability to bring comfort to the heart and to the mind of such.
19. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian, during those periods when there were the gatherings of those that came from the Grecian land.
20. The entity was among those then that came for aid and help to the city in the hills and the plains, coming as one weak in body from the exigencies of the activities during those periods when there were the gratifyings rather of the desires of the flesh and of the body. Being aroused and awakened again to the beauties that might he had from the beautiful body, and from the beauties in nature, the entity then joined with those in that particular activity of making what have become the records of the bodies - in the sculpturing art. And this holds in the present, as it were, a peculiar fascination for the entity; and especially the early Grecian, Roman, Persian, and dealing with things that make for the household activities at such periods. The entity's name was Xergene.
21. In the present we find from that sojourn the entity may, as it were, waft itself from the real to the imaginary - and
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bring again to self, through those inner soundings upon the chords of life, those things that would help in setting its own RHYTHM to its associations and activities with those whom it may contact.
22. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during the periods when there were those coming from the Atlantean land and bringing the records.
23. The entity then, in the name Exia, was the wife of one of the rulers of Atlantis - Axel. When there were the joinings of the activities of the priest Ra-Ta and the priests of the One, also those from the Assyrian lands, the entity's name was changed to Apt-She-Pute; the "e" making for the position the entity occupied among those that classified the various tenets, the teachings that pertained to the histories and records of the activities of the people of the various lands; bringing development to self during the whole sojourn in that Egyptian land.
24. So, as to the abilities of the entity in the present and that to which it may attain and how:
25. As indicated, as a keeper of records, as a writer of script, as a writer of those things that may be acted or depicted upon the stage or cinema, or upon the minds of those that labor here or there, draw upon the inner self to prepare such; and through same find not only the material gain but the outlets of the inner self to such expressions that the manifestations of what have been the motivating forces in the experience of the entity throughout its sojourn in the earth may become as a portion of that which will influence men here, there, everywhere, to make for themselves that which will bring to THEIR own portion of the divine an expression worth while.
26. Ready for questions.
27. (Q) How shall I do the writings I wish and not interfere with household duties? (A) BUDGET thy time! Then, when thou enterest in, ATTUNE thyself rather with the harp cords of thine own inner self to the periods of intuitional influence that will make thee in accord with that thou hast gained in Judea. And it will flow as from the fountain of life.
28. (Q) Should I continue helping in the spiritual lives of others? (A) As indicated, as ye give out what has been the motivating influence in thine own experience, ye may make in the experience of others that which will make each soul find the pearl of great price.
29. (Q) What should be my REAL life work? (A) Writing!
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30. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file